Ski/Nn

Sondheim, Alan
Fire Museum Records
General | Feb 2007

Reviews

Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2007-04-10
Acoustic guitar. Virtuosic, raga/folk/experimental. Lots of different moods. Some "difficult", some outright pleasant, some droney. Great stuff. Compare with Alvarius B. Modern day hippies from the mountains...at least that's what I imagine. FCC clean. Pick any track.

1-4:20) Starts simple and clean. Lilting.
2-2:26) Plucky, stuttery, worldish, but not clear from where.
3-5:06) Zither. Fast romp with a drone underneath.
4-5:04) Slow. Wandering. Difficult.
5-2:22) Skitterish diminished chords.
6-4:30) Deeply resonant low notes. Shifty, drony, and vaguely exotic.
7-1:23) Fast, skitterish.
8-4:11) Rambling folk-blues tinged.
9-5:10) Skittery, fast, stuttering over a drone. Virtuosic.
10-2:40) Mid/slow. Difficult chords accompanying a strange melody.
11-5:53) Slow, lyric, sad clusters. Becomes peaceful and hypnotic.
12-3:54) Experimental busy strumming. Occasionally make out Reinhardt chords.
13-2:08) Dark, unconventional zither playing.
14-4:13) Fast, busy, full. Jazz and blues chords. Abstractly a blues rocker, playing bass and guitar melody at the same time.
15-4:28) Sparse death folk.
16-2:36) Twirling, nice picking. Folky. Nice harmonies.
17-3:59) Fast foward a country song on crack.
18-2:23) Exotic/indian raga almost.
19-8:42) Long and raga. Beautiful playing.

Recent airplay

Matsui One
OatmealAug 29, 2008
Yearn One
Emphysema For EmphasisMar 03, 2008
Take Nine
Anywhere Out Of The WorldJun 06, 2007
Yearn Two
the jewish alternativeMay 18, 2007
1971
Into the NadaMay 09, 2007
Baby's Bounce
the jewish alternativeMay 04, 2007

Charting

2007-04-15 — 2007-06-17
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 10 1
May 20 1
May 13 1
May 6 3
Apr 29 1
Apr 22 3

Track listing

1. Take One
2. Cithara Two
3. 1969
4. Death One
5. Take Three
6. Dervish Two
7. Gz
8. 1971
9. Matsui One
10. Take Nine
11. Yearn One
12. 1973
13. Zold Four
14. Take Ten
15. Matsui Two
16. Yearn Two
17. Baby's Bounce
18. Death Three
19. Take Twenty One